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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!wcn
- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: Please help : scrolling text with new Trident 32 bit drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.203813.710@cs.brown.edu>
- Keywords: trident, scrolling, os2
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec18.213054.17329@dlogics.com> <1992Dec19.184937.3819@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:38:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.184937.3819@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
- >
- >It's also verrrry slooow for me too! Therefore, I went back to the 16 bit,
- >1024x768x16 drivers. Who needs 256 colors on their desktop anyway? Speed
- >is much more important than colors. The seemless Windoze was cool though, but
- >again not as necessary as speed. I'm much happier with the 16 bit 1024x768x16
- >driver because it is much faster and has really cool index tabs in the
- >settings. :)
- >
-
- The new Tseng 1024x768x256 driver is also a dog. Just wondering. The
- Xfree386 was too slow to be useful. But the recent release reminds me
- of the sparc at my school. It is 1024x768x256 too. So it is not
- impossible for IBM or the makers to write a decent driver for our
- cards.
-
-
- Wen-Chun Ni, wcn@cs.brown.edu (401) 863-7669
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